It is the tale of two ships. One should easily have completed its maiden voyage, the other would have raised few questions had she sunk. The one carried the wealth of an age, the other a people harried from their nation for their faith.
AP | RUSSELL CONTRERAS | Posted 01.30.2012
CHIMAYO, N.M. — They come in pain and in prayer, seeking cures and a cup of sand from a tiny adobe church called Chimayo. For two centuries, Hi...
Rita Schiano | Posted 04.18.2012
The resilient pilgrims recognized that life is a series of good times and not so good times, and that one needs the bad to appreciate the good.
Noah Michelson | Posted 11.24.2011
Each year we gather together with our families (blood or created) and give thanks for the good things in our lives (and perhaps for the bad things tha...
Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson | Posted 01.23.2012
When I was a child, the Thanksgiving story was presented as early Americans hosting a meal of gratitude that hosted Indians. As I grew and read, the circle expanded. And the expanding circles keep growing.
Donna Henes | Posted 01.23.2012
This Thanksgiving let us remember that we are part of the vastly diverse and potentially functional family of humanity.
24/7 Wall St. | Charles B. Stockdale, Ashley C. Allen. Douglas A. McIntyre, and Michael B. Sauter | Posted 11.23.2011
From 24/7 Wall St.: Thanksgiving is one of the few national holidays which is distinctly American, although there is a "Turkey Day" in Canada, too. Th...
Mark Moore | Posted 01.23.2012
This year's Thanksgiving celebration will take place as millions of children face starvation in the Horn of Africa and in developing nations around the world. And I am wondering if we will be as generous as the Wampanoags.
Terry Kelhawk | Posted 01.22.2012
America's first Pilgrims came here not for religious favor but for religious freedom, and America has been holding forth the torch ever since.
Arnold M. Eisen | Posted 01.22.2012
My attachment to Thanksgiving rests rather on gratitude, both for the blessings of God and for the many good things that generations of the Pilgrims' descendants have erected in this, their Promised Land.
Posted 11.22.2011
As the story goes, Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts marks the spot where the pilgrims first came ashore in 1620 after fleeing England in searc...
Richard Schiffman | Posted 01.21.2012
The real story of the first Thanksgiving is neither as simple nor as consoling as the pared down account we learned in history class would suggest.
Lisa M. Dietlin | Posted 01.16.2012
During this time of year, many local grocery stores as well as chains, offer the opportunity for shoppers to purchase a bag of food, a meal or to drop off a food item in a "food barrel".
AP | ABDUL SATTAR | Posted 11.20.2011
ISLAMABAD — Suspected Sunni extremists opened fire on Shiite Muslim pilgrims traveling by bus through southwest Pakistan on Tuesday on their way...
AP | FRANCES D'EMILIO | Posted 08.21.2011
ROME — The Vatican is betting an iPod beats "Shush!" in lowering the tour guide noise level in basilicas. It will even lend you one for free to...
Posted 07.23.2011
One thing that most, if not all, of the world's religious traditions have in common is a strong reverence for specific holy sites that are important t...
AP | ANNA MATHEWS | Posted 05.25.2011
KOCHI, India — A stampede of pilgrims returning from one of India's most popular Hindu festivals killed at least 102 people and injured 44 other...
Posted 05.25.2011
'Tis the season for giving thanks, and we on the Arts page are thankful for art (and of course you, dear reader). From ornately decorated tables to ar...
Paul Reiser | Posted 11.17.2011
I'm thankful that we have one whole day to be thankful. Where you have to be thankful because it's required. And for the turkey and the football, because without it, let's be honest, it's just another Thursday.
Richard Herman | Posted 05.25.2011
President Reagan's Farewell Address acts calls for a national unification over basic American values, which our divided nation has seemed to have dangerously abandoned today.
James Napoli | Posted 05.25.2011
Michael Sigman | Posted 11.17.2011
Hoping to revive my career as a very slow lap-swimmer, my rheumatologist recently plunged a cortisone-filled needle into an inflamed tendon near my ri...
Eileen Ogintz | Posted 05.25.2011
No cranberry sauce or mashed potatoes (sweet or otherwise). No pumpkin or apple pie and not necessarily turkey either. Did I mention eating with your hands? What kind of Thanksgiving is this? The first one. In 1621. At Plimouth Plantation.
Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011
Winthrop, the first governor of Massachusetts, used the metaphor City on a Hill." He advised the colonists to be a model community, as the whole world was watching them. Even when they showered. Especially when they showered.
Patricia Draznin | Posted 05.25.2011
As we approach the 2009 holiday season we pause to give thanks for the blessings of good friends, organic eggnog, and unemployment compensation.
Stephen Mansfield | Posted 04.18.2012